Keswick, until within the last few years, was much more 

 isolated than Bowness and Windermere, but now the route 

 offered by the Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway, 

 which was opened in the autumn of 1864, supplies direct 

 communication with the main lines north and south. 



In approaching Keswick from Penrith, the rocky vale of 

 Greta is seen to great advantage, as the new line follows the 

 sinuous course of that stream, piercing through the red 

 rock, and emerging from the * darkness visible' of the 

 railway tunnel upon patches of the greenest meadow, by 

 the side of which the Greta brawls musically at the foot of 

 overhanging woods. After skirting Keswick on the north, 

 (where it runs under Latrigg and the lofty Skiddaw), the line 

 makes a circular sweep behind Crosthwaite Church, and 

 crosses the valley of Braithwaite at the foot of Grisedale 

 Pike; there it follows the line of the old coach-road to 

 Cockermouth, skirting the shore of Bassenthwaite, under 



